World's first dedicated Plant Science District.
St. Louis County starts work on new plant science district
19 hours ago • By Lisa Brown
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
01/29/16
Study area for St. Louis County's Plant Science District in suburban Creve Coeur.
Hoping to replicate the success of St. Louis’ Cortex technology district, St. Louis County has begun work to create a similar high-tech district in Creve Coeur.
But instead of focusing on medical and life sciences, the Creve Coeur district will aim at plant sciences, taking advantage of research facilities such as the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center that are already there.
The county announced Thursday that Ayers Saint Gross, a Baltimore-based architectural and planning, has been hired to draft a master plan for the new plant science innovation district.
The district, spanning 575 acres, would be anchored by the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Bio-Research & Development Growth (BRDG) Park, and the Helix Center Biotech Incubator. It would also include the corporate campus of Monsanto Co.
The St. Louis Economic Development Partnership, a collaborative development effort between the county and city of St. Louis, said Thursday that Ayers Saint Gross had already started mapping ideas for the district, which is designed to attract new companies and create jobs.
The firm has provided planning services for Harvard Medical School in Boston and Washington University in St. Louis, in addition to creating the master plan for the Cortex bioscience and technology research hub in the Central West End.
St. Louis County won a $500,000 grant last year from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to fund the creation of the master plan.
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